Category: Internet

DreamMail is a professional email client that supports multiple users and multiple email accounts. It is a very nice email client and can be thought of as a very good alternative to Microsoft Outlook Express. It has all the expected features like multi-accounts supports, address book and a great message editor.It also comes with a unique webmail feature that allows you to access your webmail accounts (Yahoo, Gmail etc.) directly from the program without the need to use POP3 access.

The Google black bar is the black colored navigation bar shown on top on most of the Google websites like Google search, Gmail etc. This navigation bar contains shortcuts to various other Google services and makes it easy for you to hop across Google sites. This navigation bar is fixed and you cannot rearrange its various shortcuts or options. But if you are a Google Chrome browser user, then you can use the Big G Black Bar Sorter extension to rearrange the shortcuts in the black bar.

Chrome actually create a separate process for all these tabs so that the resources of one tab do not affect others. This is very useful as it prevents the hanging of the browser due to some rendering problem in a tab. But opening multiple processes corresponding to various tabs in Chrome might end up in using lots of your system memory. If you are concerned about tabs in Chrome hogging your memory, then you use the TabMemFree extension for Chrome to automatically park such idle tabs.

The BitTorrent protocol has revolutionized the way we download and share files over the internet. Thanks to the bit-torrent protocol, now we can share the network load among the people interested in downloading the files without the necessity of a central download server. If you use the Chrome browser, then you can download the contents of a torrent file just like any other ordinary file using the One Click Download extension.

There are millions of websites and their number is going to increase even more as more internet users start their own websites. The problem with so many domain names is that when you search for a keyword in Google search, you often get poor quality results and domains that you are not interested in. Thanks to Google engineers who have designed the Personal Blocklist extension for Chrome – now you can block undesired domains from Google search results so they will not appear again.

Today we have tons of cloud storage services which are great for backing up the files on your hard disk to cloud storage as well as syncing them. But what if you want to backup an online item (like an image, PDF file, ZIP file etc. available on a site) to cloud storage? There is an extension called Cloud Save for Chrome browser, that lets you backup a file directly to your cloud storage service without any need of downloading them first.

Mozilla Firefox has a feature called Do Not Track which requests websites that you do not want to be tracked when enabled. But websites may refuse to honor your wishes and continue to track your browsing behavior. You can use Google Privacy addon which forces Google and other websites trackers to respect your wish of not being tracked. At the time of writing this article, it supports Google, facebook, Yahoo!, Bing and Youtube. In the future, more trackers and sites might be added.

If you are a Mac user then you should be familiar with CloudApp – a free online cloud storage and sharing service. CloudApp allows Mac users to quickly upload and share files with friends and family. The sad part it that CloudApp client is not available for Windows users. This is where FluffyApp comes in. FluffyApp is a free client for Windows that allows you to access your CloudApp account with the same ease as the CloudApp client has in Mac.

MiMedia is a new cloud storage service that provides 7 gigabytes of free storage space for your various needs. For now, it provides clients for Windows, iPhone and iPad only but they claim to come up with a Mac client in the near future. In addition to the desktop and mobile clients, MiMedia storage can also be accessed using their web interface.